Mt.Crawford-Freemans Hut-Whispering walls-rocky paddock 29-30th May 2010

Ever since my last visit to this amazing hut with Jono & Alex in the middle of the night, i have fall in love with this hut, haha. Really long to go back to have a look properly and stay for a night or two. And since Jono was also keen to go back especially since he have never stay overnight there before, so we thought let’s give it a go and here we go, drove all the way up to Mt.Crawford with our simple overnight backpack. According to Jono, of all the times he’s been there before, the hut was always empty and that really tempted us to get a 6-pack beers, unfortunately we couldn’t find any pubs or cellars open along the way.

The night was cold, well it’s late Autumn, of course we were expecting freezing cold nights. Parked our car, walked the 2kms (is that right Jono??) and broke some branch of a dead tree for our fire in the hut. I was really anticipating the coziness and warmth when we got into the hut and get the fire going on, brew our hot drink, snack and zzz, wake up to a brilliant morning!!!

Yet, this time we were wrong, there’s light coming out of the window of the hut. And as to our expectation, there’s someone in there before us which kinda ruined our party, haha. Worse still they were already in bed!!! So we kinda just rocked up and made lots of noise to get ourselves changed and ready to bed as well. Unfortunately, we couldn’t feel the warm coming from the fire because we were in the other 6 bunk room, the 2 that came before us took the good spot!!! haha, the 2 were snoring in a rhythm that sync with each other, omg!!! First time i heard that kind of snoring!!! Pretty annoying of course,  oh well….Tried quite hard to shut my eyes and get some decent sleep.

Woke up to a cold hazy morning!!! Which is pretty amazing, i felt like i’m a shepherd waking to the first light of the day and getting ready to get into the farm to work because the hut is surrounded by greenery, gum trees and small slopes!!!! Unfortunately, there’s no sheep or cows anywhere in sight, haha. They were all busy grazing on some of the faraway slopes.

There’s the toilet at the side of the hut…




The kitchen at the back of the hut which is to my surprise pretty nicely built and sheltered!!!









These little little things brought in and left by people who have stay overnight in the hut really make the place like a hiker/traveler's stopover place, and the burn marks and cracks on the walls really make the hut so pretty!!! Very countryside feel for me!!!! LOVE IT!!!!

Ah Kam Heng dai’s stopover in Adelaide 20th May 2010

It was quite an exciting day, for the first time, a friend from Malaysia visited me (not actually visit, but meet up, lol) in Adelaide, some more a good hend dai (bro) lagi, worse lagi, it’s like almost 2 years we have not seen each other, so it’s kinda really great opportunity to catch up. He’s such a busy guy with his job that only occasionally we chat with one another. What’s even better, it was the 1st time i drove in Australia, haha.

And he so happened to stopover ONLY for a night in Adelaide, though short, but enough to for a decent catch up.

So we drove to the Adelaide hills, it was still autumn though the weather wasn’t really great, mt.lofty view was bit obscured and gloomy, nothing much to see for a guy like him with his job, haha.

Initially thought of bringing kam to see the roos and drop bears, etc, but only to find out that day he have seen those icons in Perth, so we changed our idea to just driving around Adelaide hills which turned up to be a nice one!!!! Especially through the windy roads of Piccadilly and the town of Uriadla. It’s also the first time i saw the golden yellow colour vineyards!!! Pretty views!!!

 

I told Kam that i really love the drive on that day, with the fresh fallen autumn leaves coming down with strong winds, the fallen leaves blanketed across the road and both sides of the road. It just felt like the scene which always captivate my minds, where car advertisements show the ang mohs enjoying their drive in the country side of Europe, the fallen leaves !!!! It’s just a pity my car wasn’t a sport car, or a convertible car which the roof can retract and fold away so that i can enjoy the nature and breeze, haha. Still i was very contented with the drive!!!

Michael & Pike See’s farewell lunch 16th May 2010

I got to know Michael and Pike See from Xiao some what a year ago, it has always been great with their accompany. The couple are very sociable lovable people and always making jokes, gossiping sometimes, etc, haha. Well, now they have to go back Malaysia and work. So it’s WAS time for a farewell which was held in Xiao’s nice apartment again, this time having steamboat.

Thanks to Xiao and Wayne for all the preparations, the food was YUMMY in more china chinese steamboat style. First time I tasted a different blend of sauces mixed together to go together with the steamboat food!!! Surprisingly the mixed sauce goes very well with steamboat food and apparently that’s how the chinese in China have steamboat, compared to Malaysians with just chili/tomato/soya sauce…etc. We even have the frozen blood on the menu, and again they tasted awesome!!!

   

In return, Michael and Pike See brought a chocolate chip cake, which tasted very delicious but unfortunately, most of us were so full from the steamboat food and could only have a small taste of the cake, haha.

Thanks to the 2 hosts again, Xiao and Wayne!!!!
 

Finally a group photo together with one of Xiao’s favourite piece of art featuring a beautifully painted fish behind!!!

Hope to meet Michael & Pike See when i get back to M’sia, till then Folks!!!!

Hallet cove again May 2010

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Brought Chung and Josie to Hallet cove, a place i have come back numerous times!!!

Again will let the pics do the talking :)

2010 Adelaide hills Autumn

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A weekend with 2 housemate and Chung to the Adelaide hills botanic garden, one of the must visit during Autumn!!!

Unfortunately, this year the we didn’t make it there on the very precise time, some trees’ leaves already fallen, while some were still green, but we still have a great time there!!!!

Well, this time I’ll just let the pictures do the talking, enjoy folks!!!